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“Can machines think?” This was the question asked by Alan Turing, one of the most renowned computer scientists, in 1950. It is a simple question on the surface, yet it allowed Turing to conceptualize artificial intelligence. From this came the idea of the virtual assistants or chatbots that we know today.
Does your company adopt an old-fashioned approach when it comes to online communication? Does your website feature a comprehensive list of FAQs to satisfy your ever-curious prospects?
These questions face every organization today as they try to rise above the noise and compete with others. Yet, a failure to address these issues could prove costly many reasons. And if you haven’t embraced the latest virtual assistant technology today, you could be left behind.
The cyber threat landscape is evolving rapidly, and businesses of all kinds are working hard to keep up with the pace of change. Unfortunately, keeping up with the pace of digital threats may not be enough, and businesses may be leaving themselves exposed in their frantic attempts to maintain security and reliability.
Smart systems that support increasingly incisive decision making and data-driven insight are the future of business. These systems unlock the much-trumpeted potential of Big Data, transforming it from a raw material with a great deal of potential into something that can be actively utilized and wielded.
Today, organizations are more reliant on information technology than ever before. Nearly every aspect of modern business is digitized, from customer interactions to enterprise management. Digitization is not necessarily bad, except that criminals have found ingenious ways to weaponize IT against businesses.
Automation is a source of wonder and anxiety in almost equal measure. While automated tools and processes are heralded as ushering in a new era of productivity, sustainability and capability across all areas of business, there is also a dark side to automation in the public perception — the idea that robots will take human jobs.
A significant trend has emerged in the world of business technology and IT systems during 2021 — organizations need to accelerate their digital transformation. This is leaving many businesses at a crossroads as they ask themselves how they can deal with their legacy applications.
Just like a business must constantly change and adapt in response to new challenges and opportunities, so too must business applications. Digital transformation, or the changes that come with the adoption of digital technology in every aspect of society, is fast approaching critical mass. And if there is one thing that the last year has made clear, it is the fact that cloud adoption is how businesses of all shapes and sizes implement their own digital transformation.
When you are talking about the future success of your business, you don’t think about the legacy of your business being the outdated IT infrastructure you’ve managed to keep running for all these years. And yet many businesses today have failed to take the steps needed to modernize their applications.
New technology enables new possibilities. But every advancement in technology also increases demands on our time as we struggle to keep up with the evolving landscape.
Just think about how long you spent on social media 20 years ago and how much of your time it takes up now. As the amount of data, computing power, and capabilities of technology increase, so do the challenges for businesses to keep up with the pace.